Why Are Some People More Creative than Others?

Why are some people more creative than others? Why do artists, for example, seem to have an easier time accessing the parts of our minds that are associated with imagination?

Rupert explains that the finite mind is like a perforated circle drawn on white paper. Each of our minds in the waking state would be a perforated circle with a certain amount of content within it — our thoughts, feelings, memories and so on. Around that circle would be another, larger than the first one. The content outside the first circle but inside the second would be that aspect that reveals itself to us in dreams. Then we could draw another line around that which would be the collective unconscious — the deepest regions of our minds that we share with all other minds.

Artists are people whose perforated lines are drawn more lightly and with more perforations in them. Their minds are more porous, so an artist is someone who in the waking state can travel reasonably freely to these deeper regions of mind and then bring back material to be shared with humanity in the waking state.

This video is taken from one of Rupert's in-person retreats at the Garrison Institute — 9th to 16th October, 2022. To view and book for upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to: